Zach’s girlfriend Beth miraculously returns from the dead, but she’s a little different now … This movie works only so far as Aubrey Plaza’s performance gives it some soul. Her mix of…
The Girl with All the Gifts
At a military lab besieged by zombie-like “hungries,” a team of scientists and soldiers experiment on children infected by the fungus that creates the hungries to try to find a cure. The…
Join by Steve Toutonghi
In a near future ravaged by environmental disasters, people are able to join their consciousness with others into new, multi-bodied selves, with their previously individual bodies as mortal avatars, or “drives,” through…
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
A beautiful, mysterious corpse is discovered half-buried in the basement at the scene of a horrific crime. A father and son team of coroners unravel her history as they disassemble her body,…
City of Ash and Red by Hye-young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
An unnamed man travels to an unnamed country to take on an unspecified role at his employer’s home office. The foreign country is in the midst of political and social upheaval, spurred…
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Charlie Manx prowls the secret roads between our world and an evil Christmasland of the mind in his Rolls-Royce Wraith, searching for children to “rescue.” Vic McQueen, psychically damaged by both her…
The Witch at the Window
A father and his estranged tween son plan to stay at a dilapidated Vermont farm house that the farmer is repairing, perhaps to flip, perhaps to offer as a gesture of reconciliation…
Fast Eddie, King of the Bees – Robert Arellano
It dawned on me rather late in the book – around page 140 or so, as the crazy train narrative was just about to leap its last rails – that there was…
Icelandic Horror Movie: Grafir og Bein (Graves and Bones)
On the weekend before he’s to be sentenced for financial fraud, Gunnar goes with his wife Sonja to a remote house where Gunnar’s niece Perla is staying after the apparent suicide of…
Holiday Horror Movies: Into the Dark: Pooka!
An actor gets a gig as a live version of this year’s viral Christmas toy, a stuffed critter named “Pooka” that will repeat back what you’ve said to it, in a “naughty”…